Racialization in Payday Mugging Narratives

Abstract

As Mexican immigrants move to areas of the United States that have not been home to Latinos, both longstanding residents and newcomers must make sense of their new neighbors. In one East Coast suburb relevant models of identity are sometimes communicated through “payday mugging” stories about African American criminals mugging undocumented Mexican victims. These narratives racialize African Americans and Mexicans in different ways. As payday mugging stories move across narrators from different communities, the racialized characterizations shift. [narrative; speech chains; racialization; Mexican migration]

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Stanton E. F. Wortham, Elaine C. Allard, Kathy Lee, Katherine S. Mortimer (2011). Racialization in Payday Mugging Narratives. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1395.2011.001097.x

@article{f2011racialization,
  title  = {Racialization in Payday Mugging Narratives},
  author = {Wortham, Stanton E. F. and Allard, Elaine C. and Lee, Kathy and Mortimer, Katherine S.},
  year   = {2011},
  journal = {Journal of Linguistic Anthropology},
  doi    = {10.1111/j.1548-1395.2011.001097.x}
}

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